carnal delights—in or of the flesh; bodily or sexual pleasures.
KP—kitchen police; an assignment, usually temporary, to work in the mess-hall kitchen.
didactic—used or intended for teaching or instruction.
“what’s good for the syndicate is good for the country”—Heller’s satirical twist on Charles Erwin Wilson’s classic capitalistic statement to the Senate Armed Forces Committee (1952): “What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.”
